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Where Uri Solves MEV With Uri Klarman
About this episode
Welcome back to The Gwart Show! Uri Klarman, known for his BloxRoute private mempool company, joins Gwart to discuss the future of MEV on Ethereum and Solana. Uri goes through ther Ethereum block builder journey, why public mempool’s are a problem in today’s on-chain economy, and his many (and we mean many) attempts to address MEV or miner malfeasance through token schemes.
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:44 Uri's background
01:28 Blocksroute
05:52 ETH block building
11:44 DeFi vs CeFi
15:55 Can Defi compete w/ Centralization?
19:53 Block builders stealing fees
21:39 Bye bye mempool
23:52 Solutions for MEV
29:10 Bitcoin miners chase profit, always!
32:25 Incentives promote MEV on ETH
33:38 Multiple concurrent proposers
45:46 Palidin
1:01:26 Why PAL token?
1:11:33 SOL delegated stake
1:12:05 Why not RPC?
1:13:18 PAL token liquidity
1:16:04 Slashing by consensus
1:19:59 ETH gas limit token
1:24:39 SOL staking future?
1:29:53 Mining ORE
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